Azure App Service Contracts

Microsoft Azure App Service
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Azure App Service skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Azure App Service over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 497 559 619
Rank change year-on-year +62 +60 +153
Contract jobs citing Azure App Service 23 39 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.090% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 62
10th Percentile £420 £336 £450
25th Percentile £475 £508 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £594 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -1.04% +4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £611 £650
90th Percentile £650 £658 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £607 £538
% change year-on-year -25.86% +12.93% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £66.45
25th Percentile - - £67.13
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £70.13
90th Percentile - - £70.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Azure App Service falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,034 14,064 21,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,650 9,986 15,862
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 348 345
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £77.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%

Azure App Service
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Azure App Service as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure App Service.

Daily rate trend for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure App Service over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Azure App Service in the UK

Azure App Service
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure App Service within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 22 £613 +2.08% 22
London +37 16 £625 +4.17% 20
UK excluding London +54 5 £450 -25.86% 10
South West +44 2 £450 +28.57% 2
North of England +24 2 £450 -
North West +15 2 £450 -
South East - 2 £400 - 9
Midlands +11 1 £600 -1.15%
West Midlands +8 1 £600 -1.15%

Azure App Service
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (60.87%) Azure Storage
3 11 (47.83%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 9 (39.13%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
6 4 (17.39%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (17.39%) GitHub
7 3 (13.04%) Azure AKS
7 3 (13.04%) Azure API Management
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (13.04%) IaaS
7 3 (13.04%) Serverless
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Parquet
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Public Sector
3 6 (26.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Architect
1 13 (56.52%) Azure Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (21.74%) .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Angular Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) React Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Developer
7 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Architect
7 1 (4.35%) Integration Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) ARM Templates
2 8 (34.78%) .NET
3 5 (21.74%) AngularJS
4 4 (17.39%) RESTful
5 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
5 3 (13.04%) React
6 2 (8.70%) OAuth
6 2 (8.70%) REST
7 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
7 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
7 1 (4.35%) JSON
7 1 (4.35%) JWT
7 1 (4.35%) OpenID
7 1 (4.35%) React Native
7 1 (4.35%) Redux
7 1 (4.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Derivative
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) VMS
2 1 (4.35%) Android
2 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) RBAC
4 9 (39.13%) Cloud Security
4 9 (39.13%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (30.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 3 (13.04%) Analytics
7 3 (13.04%) API Management
7 3 (13.04%) Microservices
8 2 (8.70%) Agile
8 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
8 2 (8.70%) Data Engineering
8 2 (8.70%) Data Management
8 2 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (8.70%) High Availability
8 2 (8.70%) Log Analytics
8 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (8.70%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Bicep
2 7 (30.43%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) Python
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) SQL
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) SC Cleared
1 9 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (60.87%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks